Elgatos EyeTV 3.5.1 is Mac OS X software that provides a user interface to the various TV Tuners from Elgato and some licensees. It is bundled with TV Tuner products sold by Elgato and is offered separately as well. Its main function as a PVR is to show the Tuners received TV programs on the computer screen. It can show live programs and also offers Time shifting. It can record programs permanently to disk, by preprogramming. It is able to wake up a sleeping Mac automatically just before the programmed time for a recording. Recorded video can be edited, i.e. scenes can be cut out or extracted without loss of quality. For most countries it is sold in it offers an Electronic program guide covering all available channels. After a recording, the movie can be automatically reencoded fitting specific formats such as Apple TV, iPhone, iPod, Sony PSP and others, optionally making use of Turbo.264 for faster processing. Reencoded video does not, however, include DVB subtitles.

Whats new in this release

Hardware Support Added support for EyeTV Sat Free. Added support for EyeTV One for Digitenne by KPN.

Bug fixes Improved support for EyeTV streaming to the iPad/iPhone. Improved performance and stability. Improved scheduling. Smart Playlists now have a Day of the Week criterion for better sorting of recordings. Improvements to the onscreen menu when stopping and deleting recordings. Fixes an issue where some tvtv Smart Series would not record because they were treated as repeats. Improved CAM support. Fixes an issue when a recordinginprogress error would be displayed when changing channels. Improved support for audio output over HDMI connections. When a recording is exported, the season number and episode number are included in the iTunes tags. Improved support for the infrared channel changer in EyeTV HD. TitanTV is no longer available as a source of Program Guide data, and is no longer supported. You may still use the Remote Scheduling feature of TitanTV.